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to use what had before thrown him into the palsy ?” I did not say so. I never had the palsy yet; though my hand shook, which is a “paralytic disorder.” But be it strange or not, so Dr. F. advised; if you believe not me, you may inquire of himself. The low wit that follows, I do not meddle with ; I leave it with the gentle reader. * O rare Wesleyan Logic teacher.--EDIT. He who is clear in making distinctions is an able fARRAGO DOUBLE-DISTILLED. 437 Of Baptism. 38. “Mr. W. says, “As there is no clear proof for dip ping in Scripture, so there is very probable proof to the contrary.’ “Why then did you at Savannah baptize all children by immersion, unless the parents certified they were weak?” (Farrago, p. 42.) I answered: “Not because I had any scruple, but in obedience to the Rubric.” Mr. H., according to custom, repeats the objection, without taking the least notice of the answer. As to the story of half drowning Mrs. L. S., let her aver it to my face, and I shall say more. Only observe, Mr. Toplady is not “my friend.” He is all your own; your friend, ally, and fellow soldier:-- Ut non Compositus melius cum Bitho Bacchius ! * You are in truth, duo fulmina belli.t. It is not strange if their thunder should quite drown the sound of my “poor pop-guns.” 39. “But what surpasses everything else is, that Mr. W. cannot even speak of his contradictions, without contradicting himself afresh. For he absolutely denies, not only that he ever was unsettled in his principles, but that he was ever accused of being so, either by friends or foes.” (Pages 39, 40.) Either by friends or foes / I will rest the whole cause upon this. If this be true, I am out of my wits. If it be false, what is Mr. Hill? An honest, upright, sensible man; but a little too warm, and therefore not seeing so clearly in this as in other things. My words are: “My friends have oftener accused me of being too stiff in my opinions, than too flexible. My enemies have accused me of both, and of everything besides.” (Remarks, p.